Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction

Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction is a real-time strategy game featuring three different species, all vying for control of the planet LV-742. Players can command an elite force of Colonial Marines, stalk…

56 30 July 2003

What Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction is

Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Zono Inc. and released in 2003. It was published by EA Games. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction is a real-time strategy game featuring three different species, all vying for control of the planet LV-742. Players can command an elite force of Colonial Marines, stalk their prey as a member of the Predator clan, or scurry along in packs as the acid-spitting Aliens. Gameplay involves advancing through a series of missions ranging in locale from jungles and caverns to futuristic battlefields and space colonies. Each faction offers ten types of combat units that can be upgraded over time with new attributes or equipment specific to the species. Predators, for instance, increase their number of vision modes, Aliens impregnate their victims with facehuggers…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Alien series

Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction is the 29th of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. The next entry was Aliens Extermination in 2006. Its critic score of 56 is 14 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Alien: Rogue Incursion at 90.

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How it was received

Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction holds a critic score of 56 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction launched on 30 July 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 and Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic.

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